3-28 Cornaceae, dogwood family

Marian C. Munro; Ruth E. Newell; Nicholas M. Hill

Authors

Marian C. Munro Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS
Ruth E. Newell E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Nicholas M. Hill Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Keywords:

Magnoliophyte, dogwood family, dicots, Cornus, red osier, bunchberry, pigeonberry, cornel

Abstract

North-temperate shrubs or trees, the dogwoods have few herbaceous perennials amongst them. Inflorescence is a cyme, often subtended by showy bracts. Four or five-merous, stamens oppose the petals, and are of equal number, or totalling 15 arranged in whorls. Calyx may be present or absent, and may be reduced to a rim around the inferior ovary. Fruit is a drupe, the stone grooved longitudinally. Leaves are typically opposite and seldom alternate.. Photographs taken by Sean Blaney, Martin Thomas and David Mazerolle.

Author Biographies

Marian C. Munro, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS

Curator of Botany (NSPM)

Ruth E. Newell, E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Curator of the E. C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD)

Nicholas M. Hill, Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Director; Adjunct Professor